Dear Families and Friends,

Time flies faster and faster each year. It is 2008 already! This year is the year of Mouse which means that we will have many different resources. Let me share my important memories of 2007 with you.

In January 2007, the Research Center for Direct Selling (RCDS) at Peking University held “The Development and Management of Chinese Direct Selling Business” International Forum. I was invited to present the Academic Researches on Direct Selling in Taiwan. I met many Chinese scholars who were studying direct selling and we became good friends. In February I retired from National Sun Yat-sen University and became a faculty member of Shu-Te University. In March, I held an Academic Forum on Direct Selling in Sun Yat-sen University in Guanzhou, China. More than 200 students attended the forum and as a result, more than 180 students enrolled in the direct selling class offered by a professor at the University in the following semester.

In April, Dr. Zhan at RCDS told me that after knowing I have retired from National Sun Yat-sen University, Prof. Wen Hai, Director of RCDS and Vice President of Peking University, would like to invite me to do direct selling research at RCDS. After some administrative arrangement, I became the Executive Director of RCDS at Peking University in September 2007. 

On 22^nd April, I was invited to present papers at the Direct Selling Symposium organized by Nanking University in China. It was an exciting experience to visit the old capital of many Chinese dynasties. In May, as a member of the University Evaluation Committee I evaluated a few Departments of Management in different universities in Taiwan. It was a valuable experience to study and evaluate departments of other universities. I learned a lot and gave them some suggestions for improvement as well.

June is the month for graduation and thank you parties. This year I have students graduated from two universities and that brought me more thank you parties. All the parties were unforgettable. I also played golf for the NSYSU EMBA team in the national EMBA golf tournament. We got the third place and I did help in winning this game.

In July, I got a research project “The Establishment and Implementation of Self-evaluation in Direct Selling Business” from Taiwan FTC. I took a lot of discussions with direct selling companies in August and finished the project in November.

In September I took the office of Executive Director of RCDS and commenced a trip to visit direct selling scholars, direct selling companies which have got license, officials in charge of direct selling. It would take more than 6 months to finish the visit. I also got the agreement from Prof. Wen Hai to hold the 12^th Academic Symposium on Direct Selling one day at Peking University in December and the other one in Taiwan in January 2008.

In October, we attended an academic symposium organized by an important academic journal in China and visited some direct selling medias in Chongqing. I continued the visit to direct selling companies in Shanghai, Tienjing in November and gave the final presentation to FTC in Taiwan. We successfully held the 12^th Academic Symposium on Direct Selling in Beijing in December and ended the fruitful year 2007.